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Monday, 2 February 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Cosmos
We are currently living in the fourth stage of the universe’s development.
It resembles the one 12.8 billion years ago and will continue to look like this for the next billions of years.
Earth
The largest part of the Earth's land is used for animal breeding (30 to 47 percent).
This is followed by wasteland and wilderness (24 to 31 percent), human forests (16 to 27 percent), arable farms (12 to 14 percent), and infrastructure (1 percent).
Tears
Insincere or inauthentic regret is called “crocodile tears.”
The term derived from a belief that crocodiles cry to lure and devour their prey. It is untrue, howe ...
Silver
Due to its bactericidal properties, silver is also used in the textile industry.
Liver
It consists of four lobes, each made up of eight sections.
Aurora
The color of the aurora depends on the height at which the atoms are colliding, and the type of atom.
If the collision is with nitrogen, we see the color purple and maroon. Collision with oxygen gives g ...
Phobos
The distance of Phobos from the surface of Mars is only 2.76 times the radius of the planet.
Silver
Silver also has the highest thermal conductivity, the brightest color, and the highest light reflectance among metals for visible light.
Aluminum (Al) reflects ultraviolet light even more.
Anorexia Nervosa
The rate of relapse after treatment ranges from 9 to 52 percent, with many studies reporting a relapse rate of at least 25 percent.
Relapse occurs in about one-third of people in the hospital and is greatest in the first six to 18 months after discharge from the facility.
Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb nanostructure (an intermediate-sized structure between microscopic and molecular structures).
Allotropy is the phenomenon of the existence of different varieties of the same chemical element in ...